RE: RBL-type BGP service for known rogue networks?

From: Sabri Berisha

Date: Sun Jul 09 11:29:54 2000

On Sat, 8 Jul 2000, Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote:
> I agree. MHSC lost an entire market plan, hosting third-party
> secure mail, becasue third-party mail services must allow
> relaying that is at minimum semi-open. At the time SMTP AUTH
> didn't exist (Until it's use becomes more wide-spread it still
> isn't real useful). The anti-relay bunch are killing a valid
> business model.
I can understand your grief. However, I expect you to have the same commen
sense most of us have and you will probably know who to blame for this. Do
you wish to blame the spammers or the volunteers who fight spam?
> Even for internal use, we have staff, on
> client-site, that need to send/recieve their mail from our
> servers, even when their lap-top is DHCP attached to another
> net-block. Every week we find ourselves having to open the relays
> more and more. Next week, I am travelling to the EU on business.
> That's yet more net-blocks that I have to allow relaying from.
I know of an isp in the netherlands that has it's relay open for their
users from all over the world. They built this system that checks if you
have logged on using pop3 at least 1 time in the lasts 5 minutes. If you
did; you can relay. If you did not; your mail will be rejected.
http://www.dds.nl is the project; their admins can tell you more.
> A single ORBS forged header, with the right source info in it,
> will pass right through our mail system, like it was greased. The
> whole anti-relay jihad is a fallacious rat-hole populated by
> rabid self-righteous rats who don't have a clue. If they don't
> need it then it must not be a valid feature <humph!>. ORBS itself
> should be RBL'd, IMHO.
Well now, I think we can have a discussion without calling each other bad
names, can't we?
> Using the same sort of mind-set to subjectively BL script-kiddee
> networks is dangerous, as the ORBS bunch has shown. It is all too
> easy for it to get out of hand, vigilante-style. What are the
> criteria and who has the over-sight?
You can find the criteria on http://www.orbs.org
> That said, having had a few of our production hosts "owned", by
> mwsh in the past, I am NOT fond of script-kiddies and agree that
> something needs to be done. But, I am seriously resistant to yet
> another ORBS style regulator bunch. That is NOT the answer.
> Please, let's all look for another solution.
You are free to come with a proposal?
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Sabri Berisha